A delightful drawing, made by one of Schubert’s friends, captures the cosy ambience of the musical evenings they shared in Vienna. It is an intimate gathering, with the composer at the piano and 30 or ...

Franz Schubert composed one of the most famous and beautiful pieces of chamber music ever written, the Trout Quintet, in 1819 for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. That's an unusual ...

On 30 August 1969, five young musicians came together to play Schubert's Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Their names: Daniel Barenboim (piano), Itzhak Perlman (violin), ...

If all concerts were this good, there’d be no need to review any of them. A string quartet is two violins, a viola, and a cello. A piano quintet is a string quartet plus a piano — usually. Schubert’s ...

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 "Trout" Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Hwayoon Lee (viola), Maximilian Hornung (cello), Roman Patkoló (double bass) Franz ...

The Silesians’ sound is built on the firm foundation of Krzysztof Korzen´’s satisfyingly cavernous bass, and the microphones are trained on the strings, leaving the piano sounding a little distant, ...

For this program, the Australian Chamber Orchestra emphasised the chamber rather than the orchestra, cutting its forces down to five players – only four appeared in any one work – and welcoming guest ...

ABC Classics presents Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet, one of the most popular chamber music pieces of all time. Schubert, inspired by the surroundings of a summer trip in the Austrian Alps, ...

(17) Ländler, Movements: No. 8 in D Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Piano (12) Deutsche (Ländler), Movements: D Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Piano (12) Deutsche (Ländler), Movements: D Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, ...

Schubert's Trout Quintet, with its use of double bass, is often seen as a singular work. This new disc couples it with a precursor, Hummel's Quintet in E flat, written 17 years earlier in 1802, though ...